Dear Steinar, > ... this is the wrong package. nfs-utils doesn't do any of the squashing ...
I submitted the bug against nfs-kernel-server. I do not understand why you think nfs-utils is involved. > I'm not sure how you think this is supposed to be solved ... Sensible people would fix the brain-dead policy. In the face of existing policy, the NFS packages should do their best to protect the innocent: big warnings in man pages, maybe squashing the bad guys (i.e. squash gid=staff also when doing root_squash). The way things are, root_squash is documented as being useful, which it is not: because it can be defeated, its intentions circumvented. You may think of this as just a documentation issue, that things will be fine if you document that root_squash is useless. That may be an abrogation of responsibility: try explaining "but it was in the man page" to someone who just had his machine trashed because he trusted root_squash. Cheers, Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
